Me and a buddy are planning on have a movie marathon next weekend, but we're not sure which movies we want to watch. I figured I ask my readers what movies you think we should get -- Remember however that the movies should be possible to "buy" on "DVD" (hint, hint), because we're not planning to go to the cinema. We're starting early in the afternoon, and plan to continue until around 5AM or so, so that's a good 15~20 hours of solid watching (minus a toilet-break every now and then and fast-food dinner).

 

Any suggestions?

Let's review brand loyalty for a minute.

 

I am what some people would describe as a Microsoft "zealot". I use a lot of Microsoft software -- Windows, all kinds of Windows Live products, Office, Visual Studio, and the list goes on (I own two Zunes). I am currently not running any pirated Microsoft software. At all. If there is a choice between a Microsoft product and some other product, with no real noticeable differences, I'm going with the Microsoft option.

 

I use Photoshop. Everything else sucks.

 

Watching a Coca-Cola commercial makes me want to drink Coca-Cola. They've done a really good job on those damn commercials. I'm not drinking Pepsi unless there is no other choice. I like Dr. Pepper, but only in limited amounts.

 

The last few cars we've owned were Toyota's. The first car I'm getting? 99% sure its a Toyota.

 

 

I can probably think of another dozen of examples, if I cared to put some extra time into writing this post.

 

Am I brand loyal? I'm brand loyal as fuck. Pardon the language.

I haven't noticed before, but it turns out Bookeen, creator of the Cybook E-Book reader, has released a new build of the v1.1 firmware almost a week ago. The new build fixes a few things, including the annoying battery-bug some users have been experiencing (including myself). Other new features are hyphenation for Mobipocket formats, and the name of the author will now appear in the header (if it is included in the document you're reading, of course).

 

More information right here.

I had two ideas for posts, but neither were long enough to warrant their own post.. Although that hasn't stopped me before.

 

 

So, I've been "into" Pyhon for a while now, and I must say -- It's great. While the naming conventions and such are a bit out of whack sometimes between the various libraries (but what else would you expect from various libraries developed by a lot of different people), I can't say I have been bothered by it that much. It's total bliss not having to type all those semicolons, braces and brackets and whatshamacallems for a while. The indentation is not evil, contrary to what some people believe, and Python actually has decent OOP support!

 

Recently I've been checking out PyGTK, and I must say that is is incredibly easy to create GUIs using Glade (or GtkBuilder, but I don't have Win32 binaries for that yet). I believe the GTK Treeview may become somewhat of a God object in the near future though..

 

 

The past few years there have been a lot of complaints about the train tickets for the Dutch railway system. Basically, the argument/complains boil down to the following: "I bought a ticket for €X, and they didn't even check it! I may as well not buy it the next time ...". It also has become fashionable (especially among teenagers and "young adults") to not buy a ticket just to be cool. Of course this reasoning is completely silly. You don't buy a ticket to have it checked ... You buy a ticket to be transported from point A to B. Just because they don't check it, doesn't mean there aren't any costs to running a nation-wide railway system, you know.